Enrique Gratas

Enrique Gratas

Enrique Gratas is an award winning journalist and the anchor of Univision's "Última Hora" (Last Hour), the second most popular Spanish newscast in the United States. His newscast originates from Miami, Florida, and it airs weekdays beginning at 11:30 P.M. EST.

Biography

Gratas started working in Argentina as a radio speaker in 1966 and moved to television news a year later. He moved to the United States in 1971 and worked as a correspondent for the Argentine television.

Later on he joined the sport division of the Los Angeles KWHY-TV station. In 1978 he conducted the first Spanish-language sports program from Los Angeles station KMEX-TV. From 1981 to 1985 he was the news director of the New Jersey WXTV.

In 1990 he moved to Miami to start the daily "Ocurrió Así" ("This is the way it happened"). When Gratas left Telemundo Network in 1999, Pedro Sevcec took over the show.

In October 1999 Gratas launched "Última Hora" on Univision, which successfully continues to be aired.

Together with Jorge Ramos and María Elena Salinas, they are considered amongst the most respected Spanish-language television journalists in the United States and Latin America.

Notable coverage and interviews

Among many others, Gratas has interviewed:
*George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld and Colin Powell
*Jessica Lynch (first to interview her)
*Yolanda Saldívar (the murderer of famous Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla)

He has also covered a number of major events, such as:
*Every American president since Richard Nixon
*Events from Watergate to the 9-11 attacks in New York City
*Numerous Democratic and Republican conventions
*Anchored coverage of the new Millennium for the Univision Network
*Both wars in Iraq
*Luis Colosio's assassination (1994)
*Olympic bombing in Atlanta (1996)
*2000 U.S. presidential elections
*Several hurricanes
*The political crises in Argentina and Venezuela

Recognitions

*1996 Suncoast Regional Emmy Award
*Premio Paoli (Puerto Rico), for his commitment to journalism
*1998 Señor Internacional
*Golden Globe nominee for best News Anchor
*2005 City of Hope Cancer Center Award

ee also

*List of television reporters/Argentina
*List of television presenters/Argentina

External links

* [http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=62169 Gratas' biography at Univision] (Spanish)


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